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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time

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